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- Introduction to Email
- (includes Directories)
- Local Addresses
- Mailing Lists
- Junk Mail
- Bulk Mail Guidelines
- Email News
- Miscellaneous
- FAQ (Helpesk)
- Pegasus (A User's Guide)

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Introduction to Email

• General Description of Electronic Mail
• Email Facilities
• Structure of a Mail Message
• Electronic Mail Addresses
  • Partially Qualified Addresses
  • Other Addressing Schemes
• Multimedia Messages
  • MIME
    • Problems with MIME
• Postmasters
• Directories

These pages are designed to provide useful information for a range of people from the complete beginner to those already familiar with electronic mail. They do not attempt to explain the basic use of any individual computer or operating system as that is documented elsewhere.

Last Updated 18 Aug 2000. Please mail any comments to C.B.Bayliss@bham.ac.uk